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AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager MCP Server

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager is a comprehensive incident management service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to help users rapidly respond to and recover from incidents that impact their cloud-based applications and infrastructure.

Quick Start Summary

The AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager MCP server is a Model Context Protocol bridge that connects AI assistants — including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Copilot — to the AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager API through natural language. It exposes 10 API endpoints as callable tools, such as CreateReplicationSet, CreateResponsePlan, CreateTimelineEvent, and more. No authentication is required — setup takes approximately 30 seconds. The server uses STDIO transport and can be installed by running npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-ssm-incidents. This integration is sourced from the auto AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager OpenAPI specification (v2018-05-10) and has a quality score of 46/99 (fair documentation coverage).

10Endpointstools mapped
NoneAuthopen access
46/99Qualityfair
~30 secSetupno auth

Server Details

Category
Cloud Infrastructure
Authentication
None
Endpoints
10 operations
Transport
STDIO
Spec Version
v2018-05-10
Install Command
npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-ssm-incidents

Environment Variables

AWS_SYSTEMS_MANAGER_INCIDENT_MANAGER_API_KEY

Example: your_aws_systems_manager_incident_manager_api_key

Top Endpoints

POST
/createReplicationSet

CreateReplicationSet

POST
/createResponsePlan

CreateResponsePlan

POST
/createTimelineEvent

CreateTimelineEvent

POST
/deleteIncidentRecord

DeleteIncidentRecord

POST
/deleteReplicationSet#arn

DeleteReplicationSet

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📖 Detailed MCP Integration Guide

A technical breakdown of capabilities, agent workflows, and security/configuration best practices.

Capabilities & Use Cases
AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager is a comprehensive incident management service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to help users rapidly respond to and recover from incidents that impact their cloud-based applications and infrastructure. An incident is defined as any unplanned interruption or a reduction in the quality of a service, such as an application outage, performance degradation, or security breach. The core capability of this API is to formalize and automate the incident response lifecycle, providing a structured process for detection, remediation, and post-incident analysis. It moves beyond simple alerts by creating a dedicated operational record for each incident, tracking actions, communications, and timelines in a centralized console. Typical enterprise use cases include managing responses to critical service disruptions in production environments, coordinating cross-team efforts during large-scale outages, and maintaining audit trails for compliance and operational reviews. For instance, a cloud operations team can use it to ensure that when a critical microservice fails, the correct on-call engineers are automatically notified, diagnostic runbooks are executed, and stakeholders are kept informed, all within a single, tracked workflow.
🤖AI Agent Value
When exposed as a set of tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to an AI coding assistant, this API transforms the assistant from a code generator into an integrated incident operations co-pilot. The AI gains the ability to interact directly with the real-time incident management context of a cloud environment. This integration provides immense value by enabling the AI to offer context-aware suggestions and perform actions based on the current operational state. For example, instead of just writing code to handle an error, the AI could be instructed to analyze an existing incident record, correlate its timeline with recent deployment changes, and suggest code rollbacks or configuration patches. The MCP server acts as a bridge, allowing the AI to query live data streams and make autonomous, yet controlled, operational decisions. This elevates the assistant from a passive coding helper to an active participant in maintaining system reliability, capable of proactive pattern detection and automated, guided mitigation strategies based on institutional knowledge and real-time feedback.
💬Example Workflows
Practical workflows enabled by this MCP server allow developers to instruct the AI agent to perform complex, multi-step operational tasks through natural language commands. A developer could ask the AI to "Create a new incident for the failed authentication service, classify it as priority P1, and attach the relevant deployment logs from the last hour." The AI would then use the createIncidentRecord and createTimelineEvent endpoints to populate a structured incident record. Alternatively, a command like "Analyze the timeline of the incident ARN X to identify the root cause and recommend a response plan modification" would prompt the AI to fetch the incident and its timeline, synthesize the information, and suggest updates to the associated response plan. The AI can also automate recurring maintenance by being instructed to "Delete all incident records older than 90 days for the development environment to comply with data retention policies," using the deleteIncidentRecord endpoint. These dynamic tasks streamline operations, reduce manual console navigation, and ensure that incident management processes are executed consistently and efficiently.
🛡️Security & Auth
It is critical to note that while the API specification lists the authentication method as "None," this refers only to the immediate API call authentication layer within the MCP tool context. In practice, all access to AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager is governed by robust AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions. Any AI agent or MCP server interacting with this API must be configured with an IAM role or user that possesses the precise, least-privilege permissions required for its intended actions. For example, an AI tool used for analysis might only need ssm-incidents:Get* permissions, while an automation agent might require ssm-incidents:Create* and ssm-incidents:Delete* for specific resources. Developers must strictly adhere to the principle of least privilege, scoping permissions to specific incident record ARNs and operation types where possible. Furthermore, enabling AWS CloudTrail logging for all SSM Incidents API calls is a fundamental security practice to audit and monitor all actions performed by the AI agent, ensuring accountability and traceability within the operational environment.

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